Headaches When Im Sleeping

Low or high spinal fluid? Ive never heard of anything like that.. Can it lead to anything bad like menijitis or somthing?

Low or high spinal fluid doesn't lead to meningitis, but it's still not a good thing. If it goes untreated for years, someone with it may have trouble thinking, remembering words, and so on.

A doctor can check this out with a spinal tap or mri. It can be controlled with medication or, if the pressure is too high, a shunt that drains the extra fluid. It sounds a little scary, but it's actually relatively mild and treatable.

Sorry it's taken me so long to respond... I haven't been around for a while.

-kerrie

Please get an mr scan done to rule out a cyst in the brain which blocks the csf pathways

Thank you for the responses.. Well so far everything been okay.. But recently it returned again.. So I went about 4 maby 5 weeks withought any problem.. And before those 4 5 weeks I went to the docter and he still said the same thing.. And plus I was getting checked for add so yea.. Can you give me more info on that cyst? I might just print this all out and show my dad because im tired of being worried.


Once again the headaches are weird there not unbearable.. But kind of annoying and it bothers me to the point where I start getting kinda depressed.. I wouldn't say it makes me naseated because I can still eat fine but last night I layed there for a few seconds okay.. Then slowly I can start feeling a slight pressure headache on the back of my head.. I try to lay on my sides which help a lil and the pressure headache starts to slowly get on the side of head where I lay down.. Now if I lay there long enough maby 30 min the headache goes away, sometimes ill feel a faint one coming back but not enough to bother me and keep me awake.. When I wake up I feel I fine and I eat breakfast and go on to school but in a few hours I start getting slight headaches on the side of my head, I think there called temple lobs? Later on my headaches just go away or there is still a slight faint one..


I know I should be going to some special docter for all this but I just don't wanna put my parents through all this trouble and hearing all the mr scan and spinal tap sounds expensive

Oh and also during those 4 5 weeks withought any headaches or problems, I was playing basketball and practice had a lot of running.. After practice I would kind of get a throbbing headache which I thought was normal since my friend also gets them sometimes.. Anyways what i'm trying to say is maby all that running helped it out? I'm not sure but once I got cut from the team which was 2 days ago I started getting the wierd headaches again

James, are you still having the same headaches? Have you learned anything more about the cause or solution?

I started having the symptoms on nov 20th 2005. I have the same problem where I can go to sleep on my side. However, when I turn on my back, I start feeling some pressure in back of head and "drainage" sensation in front of head. Then nausea (and sometimes chills) follow. If I turn to my side, the nausea, chills and headache begin to subside.

During the day, I just feel a little depressed, especially as nighttime approaches. At work, I sit in same position all day as a programmer and am starting to have trouble concentrating toward end of day.

Doctors have tried midrin which did almost no good. And amitriptylin which manages to keep headache away (mostly) during the day but has side effect of fatigue. I'm seeing a headache neurologist specialist tomorrow so hopefully will be able to find out more.

Yes, I still have the headaches and I havn't learned anything new on it.. I don't know whats wrong and im really getting sick of it.. Your symptoms seem pretty similar to mine but I still get those pressure headaches even on my sides but it does help a little to lay on my side and if lay on my side long enough(maby 10 min withought moving) the pain will go away.. On some days I also feel a lil depressed.. I mean not enough to mess up my whole day but I can still talk and stuff to my friends.. Its just a slight wierd feeling and the headaches I have during the day are very light but bother me to where it makes me a lil depresed..

And for your naseated symptoms.. I had that symptoms 3 months ago when I had these same headaches but they just went away and now im just having those pressure headaches when I lay down

if you find some new information from your docter please post it here and thank you for posting, im glad someone else besides me knows what im going though